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Modern Healthcare Breaking News Latest Breaking News from Modern Healthcare Medicare's $30M ambulance-ride mystery 9:00:00 AM Medicare paid $30 million for ambulance rides for which no record exists that patients got medical care at their destination, the place where they were picked up or other critical information. Senate advances stopgap spending bill to avoid shutdown 9:00:00 AM The Senate on Monday delivered a strong vote of confidence to a bipartisan spending bill that's needed to head off a government shutdown at midnight Wednesday. A provision that would cancel federal funding of Planned Parenthood was stripped from the... Planned Parenthood makes first Hill appearance since videos 8:45:00 AM In Planned Parenthood's first congressional appearance since being embarrassed by surreptitiously recorded videos, the organization's president said she is "proud" of its provision of fetal tissue for research but also sought to minimize the organ... Quest Diagnostics, Inovalon launch on-demand data service 8:00:00 AM Madison, N.J.-based Quest Diagnostics is teaming up with Inovalon, a Bowie, Md.-based analytics software provider, to launch a patient-specific data service. Hundreds of hospitals said to settle in federal probe of cardiac procedures Monday, September 28, 2015 8:10 PM Hundreds of hospitals are believed to have settled with the government as part of a yearslong, nationwide investigation into the suspected overuse of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, or ICDs, according to lawyers with knowledge of the cases. Medicare Advantage plans need better network adequacy oversight: GAO Monday, September 28, 2015 5:16 PM The CMS needs to do a better job ensuring that there are adequate networks for Medicare Advantage plans, according to a new analysis by the Government Accountability Office. Expect more health systems to get in the insurance game Monday, September 28, 2015 3:15 PM Health insurance is a competitive and volatile business, as some health systems that have entered the market have painfully discovered. But analysts at Moody's Investors Service expect more to follow, despite the risk. CAD for breast cancer not worth millions CMS spends on it Monday, September 28, 2015 3:15 PM Computer-aided detection for breast cancer screening is no better at identifying the disease ??than mammograms without the high-tech tool??, a JAMA study finds. A related editorial urges the CMS to reconsider covering the... CMS tests model to increase drug adherence on Part D plans Monday, September 28, 2015 1:35 PM The CMS is launching an experiment to increase medication adherence for Medicare beneficiaries on Part D plans. The goal is to improve patient care, avoid hospitalizations and emergency room visits, and save money for Medicare. HCA joins growing list of systems to settle in defibrillator probe Monday, September 28, 2015 1:23 PM HCA is at least the sixth hospital system to settle with the government as part of a yearslong, national investigation into the suspected overuse of implantable cardio-defibrillators.

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